Etymology

Diamond-Blackfan anemia

Today it means: A congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy. Full definition →

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The condition was first noted by Hugh W. Josephs in 1936, but is named for the pediatricians Louis K. Diamond and Kenneth Blackfan, who described it in 1938.

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